几个同学跟我聊到e.e. cummings，刚开始我还是挺高兴的，毕竟我喜欢别人跟我聊我喜欢的一切。后面越听越崩溃，其中一个女同学说“e.e. cummings ，我知道啊，他的诗可黄了，抖森读过他的诗，我读给你们听，《May I feel said he》那首诗是这样的。。。巴拉巴拉巴拉”。虽然懒得和这种傻姑娘再多说一句话，但我还是说了一句话“e.e. cummings 不只有小黄诗！”
重要的事情说三遍
e.e. cummings 不只有小黄诗！
e.e. cummings 不只有小黄诗！
e.e. cummings 不只有小黄诗！

e.e. cummings 全名为 Edward Estlin Cummings ( 1894 - 1962)，出生于美国密萨楚塞州的剑桥市，父亲是当时著名哈佛大学的教授。他也毕业于哈佛大学，并精通希腊文和拉丁文；由于自小受其父亲的陶冶，写作及绘画方面都有卓越的成果，以至后来成为美国著名的诗人、作家、戏剧家以及画家。他的作品无数，包括许多名画，超过900首诗歌，4本戏剧。

对于关于 e.e. cummings的百度百科，我只能用”简陋“来形容。。。

"At the time of his death, September 3, 1962, he was the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost. He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts."这是我在poets.org看到的。说e.e. cummings是美国的第二最广泛阅读的诗人，排在罗伯特弗·罗斯特后。

是的e.e. cummings的诗可不止《May I feel said he》一首，在我的认知里，我挺喜欢他的《Somewhere I Have Never Travelled》:

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
有个地方我从未到过，有不曾
体会的喜悦，你眼神里有它们的静默
你柔弱的姿势将我纠缠
无法触摸，因为它们太近在眼前

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose
你最轻柔的一瞥，也能将我舒展
即使我将自己如手指般紧缠
你总让我一瓣一瓣绽放，
（那么自如，那么惊艳）宛如玫瑰绽放在春天

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
如果你愿靠近我，我和
我的生命将会优美地闭合，刹那之间
宛如花的灵魂纵情漫想
雪花如何在大地到处飘落

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
此世再无我们可知的力量
能够媲美你内在的娇弱 她轻舞飞扬
向我逼迫，能让死亡投降
生命永恒

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
我不知，什么事物为你所包围，
所舒展开来的，我只懂
你眉间的话语比那玫瑰还要深邃
没人能够，即使漫天的灵雨，也比不了你手指的翻飞

今年三月的时候，我们学校的外教组织了一次Poetry Reading，我完全是冲着外教准备的奖品去的，巧克力啊，各种小西点，我的命啊！拿到一份外教精选的诗歌素材，毫无意外，我看到了William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, e.e. cummings等等我熟悉的诗人。说实话那次外教挑的e.e. cummings的诗是我之前没读过的，诗的名字是《maggie and milly and molly and may 》，全文如下：

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles，and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

很有趣的诗，超喜欢，我第一次读起来happy不得了！！！
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有很多人将”e.e. cummings“写成“E.E. Cummings”,其实是不对的。我曾经也对此发出过疑问，我也曾一直以为是出版商、报刊打错字，stereotype！不是他们分不清大小写，百度百科如是说：
e.e. cummings有些诗集的题名离奇古怪,诗行参差不齐,在语法和用词上也是别出心裁。词语任意分裂，标点符号异乎寻常，除了强调一般不用大写，连I（我）和自己的名字也是小写。他认为在科学技术发达的时代，人们用眼睛吸收外界的事物比用耳朵多。他在解释为什么要使用文字做特技表演时说：“我的诗是以玫瑰花和火车头作为竞争对象的。”☜最后一句说得多好啊！！！


某次晨跑听到《maggie and milly and molly and may 》都被唱成歌了！！！一开始我是不相信的，你听歌↓真的！！！
鬼知道 e.e. cummings听到会怎么想？
我认为这两首较之其他唱得还OK辣，分享给大家~

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